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| Good morning! Today, we're covering the Trump admin order placing all DEI workers on leave, 22 states challenging Trump's order on birthright citizenship, and the CCP's response to how it will deal with the new U.S. secretary of state, who the regime sanctioned in 2020. |
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Trump Admin Places All Federal DEI Workers on Leave The Trump administration issued a memo on Tuesday directing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees to be put on paid leave as agencies work to dismantle DEI initiatives. President Donald Trump issued an executive order shortly after his inauguration aimed at eliminating DEI-focused policies and programs within the federal government.
The memo, sent by the Office of Personnel Management, directs agencies to place DEI employees on paid leave by 5 p.m. on Jan. 22 and to remove all websites and social media accounts associated with DEI initiatives by the same time. Federal agencies are required to cancel all DEI-related training programs and terminate any contractors involved in the initiatives.
The memo also directs agencies to compile a list of federal DEI offices and staff working in those offices as of Nov. 5, 2024, and to submit a plan for executing a "reduction-in-force action" against those workers to the Office of Personnel Management by Jan. 31. (More) |
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22 States Sue to Block Trump's Order to End Birthright Citizenship A coalition of 22 state attorneys general and two cities have filed lawsuits seeking to block President Donald Trump's executive order denying citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and other non-citizens. All but two of the 22 plaintiff states are led by Democrat governors.
Trump's order, issued shortly after he assumed office on Jan. 20, claims that the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause does not universally grant citizenship to everyone born in the United States. One of the complaints, filed on Jan. 21 at the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleges that Trump's Jan. 20 order to end birthright citizenship violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
"President Trump's attempt to unilaterally end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of our Constitution," said Massachusetts Attorney General Matthew Platkin. "For more than 150 years, our country has followed the same basic rule: babies who are born in this country are American citizens." (More) |
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Beijing Indicates It Will Speak to Rubio Despite Its Sanctions Against Him The Chinese communist regime has signaled it will communicate with the new U.S. secretary of state despite the regime's sanctions against the Trump appointee, former Sen. Marco Rubio. In 2020, the Florida senator, who is a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) human rights record, was targeted twice by Beijing's retaliatory sanctions, after the U.S. Treasury Department imposed human rights sanctions on officials in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Speaking from Beijing on Jan. 20, Guo Jiakun, spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, did not answer a question on whether Beijing would drop its sanctions against Rubio. "In the meantime, it's necessary for high-level Chinese and American officials to maintain contact in an appropriate way," Jiakun said.
In the official Chinese-language transcript of the press conference, the regime quietly replaced one Chinese character used for Rubio's name with a homophone. Chinese netizens speculated that the regime was trying to minimize its embarrassment by pretending there are two different people. (More) How did you enjoy today's Morning Brief? Tell us what you think here. |
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